Two-wheeled vehicle



(No Model.)

0. S. BEEBE.

TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

No. 394,050. Patented Dec. 4, 1888.

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CHARLES S. BEEBE, OF RACINE, \VISCONSIN.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,050, dated December 4, 1888.

Application filed June 8, 1888. Serial No. 276,441. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. BEEBE, of Racine, in the county of Racine, and in the State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Two-\Vhceled Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to two-wheeled vehicles; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, to be hereinafterdescribed with reference to the accompanyin drawings, and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan View of a vehicle constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 a side elevation of the same.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents the axle; B, the wheels; C, the crossbar; D, the springs, and E the bars for the seat F, these bars being connected to said springs by brace-irons G. The construction and arrangement of parts thus far described are similar to those shown in my patent, No. 342,996, issued June 1, 1886. I

Rigidly secured to the axle and crossbar similar to the thills shown in the patent above noted-are side bars, H, the latter being bent in front of the cross-bar to extend in toward the center of draft of the Vehicle, where their extremities are bolted or otherwise suitably secured to a pole, .I, that is clipped to said cross-bar as illustrated by Fig. 1.

By the construction above described I provide what is termed a pole-cart that is.1ight and durable, and by means of the side bars, II, I secure a wider bearing for the pole J than is ordinarily the case in vehicles of the class to which my invention relates, while at the same time the axle receives the strain that comes upon the pole, and thus the cart has a greater stiffness and consequently greater strength than those in ordinary use.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lett ers Patent, is

In a two-wheeled vehicle, the combination of the axle A, cross-bar C, side bars, D, having forward extensions bent in front of the cross-bar to come in toward the center of draft, the pole .I, clipped to said crossbar and bolted to the forward ends of said side bars, the springs l), seat-supporting bars E, and braceirons G, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Racine, in the county of Racine and State of \Yisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

CHAS. S. BEEBE.

Vt'itnesses:

J. E. DODGE, J. E. BUSH. 

